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Our business
The vision of the Cairns Catholic Education Community (CCEC) is: ‘to offer a quality Catholic education so that each person may know and come to identify more fully with the living Spirit of Christ.’ Our learning experiences are grounded in a Catholic perspective in dialogue with other school communities working in partnership with families to create opportunities for young people to encounter fullness of life.
The CCEC leads and supports the work of Catholic education spanning over 377,000 km2 from Cardwell in the south, west to the Northern Territory border including the Atherton Tablelands, and north to the Torres Strait Islands and Gulf of Carpentaria. The CCEC
provides quality education to over 11,000 students in the 29 Catholic schools and colleges across the region. These are supported by three offices located in Cairns. The schools extend from Tully in the South, west to Dimbulah on the Atherton Tablelands, and north to Hammond Island in the Torres Strait. Currently there are 1077 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students (approximately 9.7%) across the school communities.
The Cairns Catholic Education Community is one of the largest non-government employers in the Far North. There are 1285 employees of which 40 identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employed in teaching, non- teaching and leadership positions across the Diocese. The
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